If we can't understand the Afghan family, we can't understand Afghanistan.

There is nothing I would change - to change it I would have had to write a totally different book.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

I believe the consequences of a war are so harsh that it should be always the last resort.

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

I was thinking, there are 5 million people, and I am just one of those 5 million. In the build-up to the war you see children playing in the street, and you think, ah, I'm going to be okay.